The Arizona sentinel., 1887-12-24
HOME AND FARM

Always ''oa time" -wide-awake
farmers.
-Linseed oil will remove rust from
a stovepipe.
Diverted pigs are made sick, and
do not grow.
"A painted fence around the yard
will last longer than an implanted
one and look better at the same time.
The wheat area in India has in
creased within the past few years to
about q, 600, 900 acres. A recent esti-
mate places the maximum wheat pro-
duction at 903 900. 600 bushels, against
few thousand hundred-weight ten
years ago.
1t takes nearly 100, 900, 900 foreign
eggs a month to keep the English in
cakes and buildings. The matter OF
the protec ion of the English hen from
the competition of the pauper fowls OF
France has been thought so serious
that even Gladstone has paid some at
tention to it.
Poultry men say that pullets
Matched by incubators and raised IN
brooders lay much sooner than those
hen-hatched and raised. A Trenton
man has one of these artificial young
hens that began laying when ten weeks
old. and has laid an egg day ever
since.
Lard is not suitable as lubricator
for axles of wagons. as it is said 10
loosen the spokes. Wood tar is still
largely used. and tallow is also an inn
portant ingredient, two parts tallow,
one of tar and one of castor oil being
considered excellent for cold weather.
Fowls will not thrive and do well
that are penned over hogs. We have
seen it advocated TO build the poultry
house over the hogs This is a mis-
take. When done, sickness and death
among the flock is always greater. No
one wants 10 associate with hogs, not
even chickens. Troy Times.
Baked Onions: Boil in sailed water
one-half hour Lift out in drain
spoon carefully and lay them closely
together in a baking-pan; salt and pep
per, also one-half teaspoonful of but
ter should be put on each onion; bake
in a hot oven half an hour, when they
should be both tender and Drowned;
take out without crushing and serve
hot.-Fdrnler and Manufacturer.
Rolls: One quart flour, two ounces
butter well rubbed together, one we'll
beaten egg, a little salt, two teaspoons
baking powder we'll dissolved, and as
much milk as required to make a stiff
batter; beat it we'll. set to rise; when
light, roll out thin, cut into gems,
brush edges with melted butter, fold
them over. place in pans separated n
little, let them stand awhile to rise
again, and bake. Boston Budget
When the wool-buyer comes
round the farmer wishes he had looked
after his sheep a little more closely,
cut down the bur and briar bushes,
and removed the tags in the spring,
remarks an exchange. A dirty fleece
weighs more, but the buyer is keen
sighted, and is sure to deduct from the
price paid for good, clean wool more
than enough 10 make up for the extra
weight Bear this lesson in mind and
keep the wool clean next year. En-
change.
"A wooden plate can be covered
with the fat gray moss found on old
stones and fences. Attach it with
glue, and when perfectly dry. glue on
a little irregular twig, putting bits of
moss on also, and when the twig is
firmly fastened mount bird or bird S
nest with eggs. and you will have a
pretty PLAGUE for the wall which can
be varied TO suit any caprice or con-
dition. If the wall is dark place a
bit of bright drapery behind the
PLAGUE Indianapolis Journal
"A Delicious Dish: A pair of not
very young fowls should be cut up
and fried in a saucepan, with butter
and a little lard. When brown re-
move the pieces. Add two finely
chopped onions to the same gravy
and let them brown. Also seed and
skin eight or nine tomatoes, cut them
in slices and add TO the fowls; also
half a green pepper. finely chOpped;
two cupfuls of hot water or beef stock;
season and let all boil slowly for half
an hour, and serve with plain boiled
rice in separate dish.-IndianapoEiS
Sentinel.